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May 7, 2008 – CBS Radio News/WCBS Special Reports – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 7, 2008 – a busy Wednesday, this May 7th in 2008. Beginning with reports of mass protests over the city of New York over the verdict in the Sean Bell shooting case. A quick...
April 25, 2000 – The CBS World News Roundup; Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 25, 2000 – The National Zoo in Washington D.C. was the scene of a gun battle between two rival gangs – caught in the crossfire were a group of school children on...
April 17, 2001 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 17, 2001 – Busy news day – The Bush White House suddenly turned Green, letting stand a Clinton-era rule on Lead. The White House announcement drew criticism from the industrial sector, who were now obligated...
March 30, 1951 – CBS Radio: Hear It Now with Edward R. Murrow – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 30, 1951 – What this week sounded like in 1951, and a look at Hollywood at a crossroads. A week loaded with drama – from hearings on Organized Crime to...
March 29, 1995 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 29, 1995 – Drugs seemed to be the theme of news this day. Police in Pacific Palisades, California concluded that the previous night’s gunshot death of Actor Carroll O’Connor’s son Hugh was a suicide. O’Connor...
March 28, 1992 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection- March 28, 1992 – Lawyers representing Libya went before the World Court and accused the U.S. and Britain of using threats in order to obtain the surrender of two Libyans, suspected in the PanAm Flight 103 bombing...
March 25, 1998 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 25, 1998 – In the small Arkansas town of Jonesboro, gunfire erupted at Westside Middle School where four students and a teacher were killed the previous day by a jilted 13 year-old boy and his...
March 19, 1990 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 19, 1990 – A day baseball fans were celebrating. After 32 days of back and forth negotiations, the Baseball players strike was over. Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent announced that a settlement had been reached and...
March 12, 1993 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 12, 1993 – Busy news day. Starting with the swearing in of Janet Reno, the first woman to serve as Attorney General and to become the second-longest serving Attorney General in U.S. history, after William...
Starr Report – delivery to Congress – September 9, 1998 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – While America patiently awaits the arrival of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Report findings over Trump-Russia and the rapidly expanding list of other legal issues, you can’t help but be reminded of a time when...
